SAHO global search
8,078 records
August 9: National Womens Day: 25th Annivers
… Two pages from newspaper. Black lettering and illustrations. Notice of August 9th …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.6 No.1 Oct-Dec 1961
… Kennedy’s New Frontier, Winifred F. Courtney. I Had a Black Man, Michael Picardie. Book Reviews, Richard Clements …
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… defeating the Italian colonizers. He was also the first black African King to engage in slavery of white European war …
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… body of Games were already faced with the boycott of five black African nations - Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and …
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… greeted Mugabe's arrival at the grounds in the Highfield black township of Salisbury. Mugabe told the riotous rally of …
EventRhodesia withdraws from Summer Olympic Games
… racial policy. The IOC felt the policy of only allowing black athletes to compete in sprinting and jumping events did …
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who fired at demonstrators attacking …
EventEmily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War
… people in White camps and more than 18 000 inhabitants of Black camps had died in captivity during the war. …
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… ardent Africanist and believed that the empowerment of a Black political leadership was necessary for the success of …
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… to curb the rapidly expanding and increasingly militant black trade unions. He also warned that the newly established …
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… a doctoral thesis that fully accepted the inevitability of black urbanisation. Koornhof was born in Leeudoringstad, in …
The Neglected Tradition
… Art Gallery to curate an exhibition of art by 'black South Africans, I spent much time consulting artists, …
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… view of the white minority. From the point of view of the black majority South Africa is a Slave Colony. No social … the South African Republic will emerge…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… many more to come. The apartheid army continues to occupy black townships, black schools and universities. Hardly a month passes without … one vote" in South…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… produced annually by all medical schools, only 300 are black and of these, only 120 African. We know that the same … pharmacy also reveal that very few of…
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… in poverty. Of them it is said that they are human but black, whereas others are described as human and white. To … you're alright; if you are brown, stick…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… water. It is described as “carnivorous,” having a hideous face, an eye in the middle of his forehead, and several rows … experience so that that all readers,…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… briefly it is: The contact of the White race with the Black has resulted in the emergence of a set of conflicting … the White man acts as one group in…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… hardly translated into observable economic emancipation. Black people remain landless, they remain on the margins of … disposable labour. Landlessness and…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… with unlettered peasants, who academics if they were black they tended to be on the same side, seeking liberation, … small number of people - which straddled…
Rhodes Must Fall Exhibition: "Echoing Voices from Within"
… precision the multi-layered and intersectional voice of black bodies – the students, workers and staff who have come …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 9: Law, justice and society
… the courts and the legal profession; Difficulties facing black South Africans in exercising their legal rights; The …
EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
… often garnered controversy especially in her depiction of Black people. Stern died in 1966 and her home in Cape Town …
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… This 'Bantustan' policy sought to assign every Black African to a 'homeland' according to their ethnic …
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… of the 1936 Act and other arrangements. After 1976 three black homelands were granted independence by the Republic of …
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… At the time the government had already arrested sixty Black suspected anti-apartheid activists. Sources: Books: …
EventSteytler launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill
… as they were inclusive in their membership, henceforth Black people, being the most going to affected should the …
EventArchbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal
… Council of Churches, Nobel Peace Prize winner and first Black Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Southern …
EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… and appeared in court on charges of trying to enter a Black township without permit, but charges were subsequently …